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Regimen is a old genre, codified in the Middle Ages. It advises the reader how to preserve his or her health by managing lifestyle factors known as the “Six Non-Naturals”: eating; sleep; emotions; evacuations (ie, urination, defecation); air; and exercise. Such works focus on health maintenance rather than on curative medicine.

Hereafter foloweth a compendyous regyment or a dyetary of healthe, made in Moutpyllier…

Boorde, Andrew
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The boke for to learne a man to be wyse in buyldyng of his howse…

Boorde, Andrew
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The preceptes of the excellent clerke [and] graue philosopher Plutarche…

Plutarch,
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Via recta ad vitam longam, or, A plain philosophicall discourse of the nature, faculties, and…

Venner, Tobias
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Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and…

Venner, Tobias
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Via recta ad vitam longam, or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and…

Venner, Tobias
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Speculum ægrotorum. The sick-mens glasse: or, A plaine introduction whereby one may give a…

Fage, John
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Via recta ad vitam longam.

Venner, Tobias
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Via recta ad vitam longam.

Venner, Tobias
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The haven of health. Chiefly gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all…

Cogan, Thomas
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